FINAL RESTING PLACE Staged Reading: Benefit for PEACE OVER VIOLENCE (in LA)

Ali MacLean’s FINAL RESTING PLACE will be performed at the Broadwater Theater Second Stage on Wednesday, December 4th. The winner of the International Centre for Women Playwrights Amy Oestreicher Award, the play will be read as a benefit for the non-profit Peace Over Violence.

Featuring a cast including: Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad, The Unicorn), Dale Dickey (Hell or High Water, Winter’s Bone), Evangeline Edwards (Heroes of the Fourth Turning/Rogue Machine), Jackie Emerson (Chicago Med, Hunger Games), Jackie Harris Greenberg (Yes Man), Juliet Lopez (The Affair), Maliabeth Johnson (Mad Men, American Horror Story), and Ali MacLean (Mr. Show, Lincoln Center).

Final Resting Place is a theatrical event that gives a voice to women whose deaths are sensationalized, but whose stories often go untold. The play is a composite of monologues from women who have crossed paths with a serial killer. Some are victims from beyond the grave, some are family left behind, and others have survived, yet remain nameless while the killer has become infamous.

These women and their gut-wrenching, Brechtian confessions are intertwined with a satirical, behind-the-scenes peek at a slasher movie franchise, which is based on the murders. Soon the audience isn’t able to tell fact from fiction. And that is exactly what Final Resting Place hopes to highlight: Our country’s obsession with true crime, murder podcasts, and horror porn flicks has made the murdering of women America’s favorite pastime.

As a survivor of violence herself, MacLean uses her own experiences in her work, as well as her advocacy work at non-profits such as Peace Over Violence (where she is on the Advisory Board) as a catalyst for change.

Ali MacLean is an award-winning and published playwright, actor, director, and mental health advocate who is published by Smith & Kraus, Nation, and Applause Books, and the winner of the David Sedaris Writing Prize. She writes about trauma, adversity, and otherness, using comedy as a Trojan horse.

*Ticket proceeds will go towards Peace Over Violence. POV’s mission is to “build healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic, and interpersonal violence.”

Starts 7:30PM PT